Home / Modern Flying / Airbus E-Fan: The Electric Aircraft Modern Flying Airbus E-Fan: The Electric Aircraft By Craig Fuller July 15, 2015 The Airbus hybrid is sexy, fast and coming soon.Airbus subsidiary VoltAir has been flying this E-Fan prototype for a little over a year to test the possibilities for pure electric-powered flight. In a few short years the E-Fan 2.0 electric two-seater and E-Fan 4.0 hybrid-electric four-seater will be built at a new factory in France. Read more about the new factory here. As the name suggests, the E-Fan prototype (shown here) and production iteration will be powered by electrically driven ducted fans. Here is an artist’s impression of the production iteration of the Airbus E-Fan. At this point E-Fan is still a very big bet for Airbus, but knowledge gained about electric propulsion makes it a gamble worth taking. For more on the E-Fan, read up about the advances in propulsion technology and its electric motor here. Craig Fuller A pilot for more than three decades, Craig Fuller is owner and CEO of FLYING parent company Firecrown Media. More From Modern Flying SpaceX Adds Cosmic Tourism Offering to Website What to Know About Boeing Starliner’s First Crewed Test Flight Biden Administration Defines ‘Climate-Smart’ SAF Subsidy Program Lilium to Debut Full-Scale eVTOL Jet at EBACE SpaceX's Uncrewed Dragon Spacecraft Splashes Down With Cargo Axis Unveils Three-in-One Flight Simulator